What do you think of SharePoint?

SharePoint has conquered the enterprise intranet. Although the conquest is never as bloody nor expensive as more invasive conquests, such as the Mongols under Genghis Khan, intranet citizens are not always thrilled by the new system and structure under Gates Khan.
SharePoint is present in 80% of the Fortune 100; and plays a prominent intranet role in about 70% of knowledge worker intranets (either powering the main intranet portal, or delivering associated collaboration sites and/or document repositories). This in spite of its history.
SharePoint 2007 was a dog; SharePoint 2010 was a dressed-up dog; but SharePoint 2013 represents a leap forward, and SharePoint 2016 and Office 365 represent considerable improvement into a a very usable, complex digital workplace solution.
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It's actually helped us standardize our content ingestion piece. We receive anywhere from 10,000 to 12,000 documents a day. It's helped us standardize that process across six different business units. We've seen a reduction of error rates.... more»

It provides a very simplified process. It's a lot more flexible than the system we had before. It allows us, again, to create those business processes on the platforms that more closely represent the actual business processes. It's got a lot... more»

I haven't really found anything that I would like to see improved. They're continuing to improve it; things such as improved optical character recognition, hand writing recognition. I think as they continue to tweak those engines on the... more»

We are able to securely share large files by providing external partners the ability to download or upload data. There is also a notification feature that lets the user know a file has been downloaded or uploaded. This prevents someone from... more»

The user interface is fairly straightforward and easy to understand. The configuration on the mobile devices is a little clunky, in terms of setting up the application. For the account information, you need to enter it in the format of... more»

The full-text indexing and search of PDF documents. The command line utilities allow bulk manipulation of documents; that is, if any reorganization is needed. For one implementation, the full-text indexing of PDF documents and associated search were the most valuable features. It allowed the department to search with sufficient accuracy that there was no need to... more»

Enterprise Architect at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Mar 29 2017

What do you think of IBM FileNet?

Valuable Features:
The most valuable feature is seamless storing and retrieval of documents irrespective of the format of the document
• Improvements to My Organization:
Our current document management solution has limited capability in terms of the type of document that can be stored. With Filenet and Datacap we can accept documents in various formats seamlessly without user intervention.
• Stability Issues:
We are in the early stages of implementation of this solution. We have not encountered any stability issues
• Previous Solutions:
We were looking for a data solution because the other one was sort of cramping our style. It could be accessed only via limited workstations, so we were looking for another data storage solution.
• Other Solutions Considered:
We...

What do you think of DocStar ECM?

Valuable Features
Ease of use Flexibility to span across multiple departments
• Improvements to My Organization
A/P Automation H/R On boarding Client/Vendor File Management Contract Management
• Room for Improvement
Not designed well for high-volume batch capture Does not display the images during the scanning process, so QC is always a post process
• Use of Solution
Over 13 years.
• Deployment Issues
Premise Eclipse requires you to have the 2012 platform.
• Stability Issues
We've experienced a couple of outages on Eclipse sites.
• Scalability Issues
The entry point if you start from scratch is cost effective. If you have to import legacy data this becomes a lot more involved and costly. Based on the license model can get expensive when compared to other...